Dilley Joshua R, Singletary Camelia R, Ard Jamy D, Giles Steven, Skelton Joseph A, Heboyan Vahé, Jake-Schoffman Danielle E, Turner-McGrievy Gabrielle, McGrievy Matthew, Ip Edward H, Moore Justin B
Department of Plastic Surgery, Wake forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USA.
Department of Implementation Science, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USA.
Transl J Am Coll Sports Med. 2020 Fall;5(12). doi: 10.1249/tjx.0000000000000136.
The prevalence of in youth with overweight and obesity is a global health concern, necessitating clinical interventions to treat obesity effectively through lifestyle modification. Interventions in adolescents have demonstrated improvements in healthy eating and physical activity with only modest weight loss outcomes. Consequently, there is growing interest in developing strategies to enhance the effectiveness of clinical interventions in adolescents. Targeting the family system can be an effective approach, but existing studies have failed to examine the impact of co-enrolling both the adolescent and adult in individually tailored weight loss programs and coordinating the adolescent/adult weight loss efforts.
This paper reports on the design and conceptual framework of the Dyad Plus study, which utilizes two weight loss clinics of the Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center: Brenner Families in training (Brenner FIT®; adolescents) and By Design (adults). Dyad Plus is a coordinated program designed to facilitate self-monitoring, positive communication, joint problem solving, and social support to increase physical activity, healthy eating, and weight loss relative to Brenner FIT alone.
A total of 45 parent/adolescent dyads are randomized to one of three conditions (n = 15 for each): Brenner FIT only, Dyad (adolescent and parent both enroll simultaneously in the age appropriate program), and Dyad Plus (both parent and adolescent enroll simultaneously, but with a coordinated component for adolescent and caregiver). This study aims to develop and pilot the coordinated intervention, establish feasibility of the intervention, and determine costs associated with implementation.
The results of the study are expected in winter of 2021.
If proven feasible and acceptable, Dyad Plus will be tested for effectiveness in a large-scale implementation-effectiveness clinical trial.
青少年超重和肥胖的流行是一个全球健康问题,需要通过临床干预来有效治疗肥胖,即通过改变生活方式来实现。对青少年的干预已证明,健康饮食和体育活动有所改善,但体重减轻效果有限。因此,人们越来越有兴趣制定策略,以提高青少年临床干预的有效性。针对家庭系统可能是一种有效的方法,但现有研究未能考察让青少年和成年人同时参加量身定制的减肥计划并协调青少年/成年人减肥努力的影响。
本文报告了二元组加研究的设计和概念框架,该研究利用了维克森林浸信会医学中心的两家减肥诊所:布伦纳家庭培训诊所(布伦纳FIT®;青少年)和量身定制诊所(成年人)。二元组加是一个协调项目,旨在促进自我监测、积极沟通、共同解决问题和社会支持,以相对于单独的布伦纳FIT,增加体育活动、健康饮食和体重减轻。
总共45对父母/青少年二元组被随机分配到三种情况之一(每种情况n = 15):仅布伦纳FIT、二元组(青少年和父母同时参加适合年龄的项目)和二元组加(父母和青少年同时参加,但有针对青少年和照顾者的协调部分)。本研究旨在开发和试点协调干预措施,确定干预措施的可行性,并确定实施相关成本。
该研究结果预计在2021年冬季得出。
如果证明可行且可接受,二元组加将在大规模实施效果临床试验中进行有效性测试。